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“If this ever gets weird, promise me we can just stop, as nothing is more important than loving you.”
These were the words of Omar Rodríguez-López to his childhood friend Cedric Bixler-Zavala in January 2000, on the eve of recording a breakthrough album that would change their lives forever.
Omar and Cedric is the uniquely told story of the artistic and personal relationship between the founding members of At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta. It is also the story of two immigrant outsiders and their desire to create their own place in the world.
Told almost entirely through the hundreds of hours of intimate footage shot by Omar Rodríguez-López over the last 40 years, it captures the genesis of their magnetic friendship, the years of creative partnership and the catastrophic breakdown of the relationship in a haze of deception, Scientology, death and betrayal.
This film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.